We just watched that one last night after a week and a half of dealing with heavy shit that still isn't done yet. Not really the episode I would have chosen to dip the toes back in after trauma, but that's what was up next. Still a great ep.

I just watched that one for the first time the other day and it completely changed my mind on her. Just fantastic.

Yesss, it's such a shame that the other Odo-Lwaxana episode (the one where she gets married) is the B-plot of "The Muse".

I don't love most Lwaxana episodes, but that one and Half a Life are wonderful.

Why am I like this

https://imgur.com/a/avF7mLc

I guess they just seem like two Queens who stand outside it all and thus see things more clearly idk

I dunno, I can like a character and think they're the worst. It's likely that I like them because they're the worst.

Love Majel Barret, hate Lwaxana.

Also, did we have this same conversation a couple weeks ago on telegram?

I feel like most people would agree she's a terrible person. Makes for a great character in a tv show though because she shakes things up.

Her demeaning of her daughter too, "little one", grates. She's a narcissist. Reminds me of someone in real life and I'll never be able to get past it.

I interpret her interactions with Picard a little differently. He might think she's a real pain in the ass, but I don't think she's actually being a sex pest, because they both know she knows there's nothing there. He's not going to be pressured into doing anything he's not interested in, which is something she also knows, and they live in a world where that's not OK anyway. It's a game, and honestly, an extremely gifted and perceptive telepath could cause him any number of problems. This is a man whose experience with people being in his mind was from the Borg. She's certainly found a way to come off as extremely harmless.

In other words she knows exactly how much she can violate people's boundaries before they'll be uncomfortable enough to do something about it.